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In my 40-plus years of teaching cognitive psychology, reading professional literature, and casually talking with friends and acquaintances, I’ve encountered many misconceptions about how the human brain and mind work. Here I’ll address three common misconceptions about the brain that have been discredited time and time again by neuroscientific and psychological researchers. Misconception #1: Most […]
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Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, author of How We Think and Learn , explains why some people stubbornly stick to misinformation and irrational ideas.
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Originally posted on Sandyhershcovis.org Lately I’ve become interested in workplace ostracism as a form of workplace aggression. Most research lumps ostracism with other forms of mistreatment (incivility, bullying, etc.), but a recent chapter by Sandra Robinson and Kira Schabram (in press), has convinced me that it is in fact quite different, and possibly much more painful […]
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Todd Dufresne author of The Late Sigmund Freud continues his look at the Freud that has been ignored, avoided, forbidden, and whitewashed for decades.
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I recently contributed a short entry for Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (2017) called “Future.” In it I outline the task of thinking the future in light of the crisis of capitalism and the catastrophe that is global warming. Inspired by this work I am currently researching the philosophical significance of the […]
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The hippocampus binds information between different cortical regions during long-term memory. However, long-term memories may only depend on the hippocampus for a limited time. In the standard model of memory consolidation, a long-term memory representation changes from being based on hippocampal-cortical interactions to being based on cortical-cortical interactions, which takes a period of somewhere between […]
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Scott D. Slotnick author of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory discusses the link between Alzheimer's and long term memory.
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Do all animals have episodic memory? Scott D. Slotnick author of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory discusses episodic memory in mammals.
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